The Friends of the Professional Car Society is the official website of the Professional Car Society, Inc. (Society). Our membership is primarily dues paying members of the Society; however, it is not a requirement that you belong to the Society to participate in our website.
The professional car is loosely defined as a custom bodied vehicle based on passenger car styling and used in the funeral, rescue, or livery services. Such vehicles may be hearses, flower cars, service cars, ambulances, limousines, or cars which are specially built to combine two or more of these different functions-combination hearse-ambulances, sedan-ambulances, or invalid coaches.
The Society was founded in 1976 to encourage the preservation of such vehicles. At that time, many of these vehicles had no established classes in multi-marquee antique car organizations. The Society's growth since that time has helped to establish the position of the professional car in more clubs and shows, and has served to preserve many of these vehicles for future collectors to restore and enjoy.

General Discussion ForumFor the general discussion of Professional Cars.

Now....here's something you don't see everyday.This is a Series C-53 1952 Crown Imperial formal limousine. With a wheelbase of 145.5-inches, the 1951 and 1952 models were the same and there were only 338 of these built in the two years. The 1952 version seen here cost $7,044 when new and tipped the scales at 5,450 pounds. They were powered by a Chrysler's 18--horsepower Hemi V-8. There can't be too many of these around today. This is a worthy restoration candidate if I ever saw one. Certainly different from the more common fish-tailed Cadillac of the era.